Next Meets:
* Beijing Olympic Games 2008
Aug. 08-24 2008,
Beijing/China
Olympic swimmers, celebrities to attend Golden Goggles
Some of the top athletes include: Michael Phelps, Aaron
Peirsol, Ian Crocker, Natalie Coughlin, Kaitlin
Sandeno, Jenny Thompson, Dara Torres, Mark Spitz,
Janet Evans and Misty Hyman
from USA Swiming
Olympic swimmers, celebrities to attend Golden
Goggles (11/9/2005)
WHAT: Golden Goggle Awards
WHEN: Monday, Nov. 14th Red carpet arrivals begin at
6 p.m.
WHERE: Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City
WHO: Seventy-five Olympians - including many of the top names
Some of the top athletes include: Michael Phelps, Aaron
A number of local celebrities are scheduled to make an appearance on
Red Carpet Arrivals will begin at 6 p.m. in front of the Hammerstein
DETAILS: The Golden Goggle Awards is USA Swimming’s
A portion of the proceeds from the 2005 Golden Goggles will go to help
The 2005 list of nominees is as follows:
Male Athlete of the Year:
Female Athlete of the Year:
Coach of the Year Award:
Breakout Performer of the Year:
Perseverance Award:
Male Performance of the Year:
Female Performance of the Year: (all from
About USA Swimming
from the 2004 Olympic Games and a number of the Olympic legends - will be in
attendance, in addition to the majority of the 2005 World Championships team.
Peirsol, Ian Crocker, Natalie Coughlin, Kaitlin
Sandeno, Jenny Thompson, Dara Torres, Mark Spitz,
Janet Evans and Misty Hyman.
the red carpet and at the event as presenters, including: New York City Mayor
Michael Bloomberg, Giants running back Tiki Barber, Olympic
gymnast Shannon Miller and actresses Katie Huffman (The
Producers and Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Ellen Dolan (As The World
Turns).
**PHOTO OPP**
Ballroom, and will last until 7 p.m. All athletes and celebrities will stop on
the red carpet for photos and will be available for interviews at this time.
annual year-end gala event recognizing the outstanding swimming accomplishments
of 2005. Awards will be presented in eight categories. More than 600 people are
expected to attend the Broadway-themed event, which is sold out for the second
year in a row. Dan Hicks of NBC Sports will be the master of ceremonies.
displaced family members and their loved ones from Hurricane Katrina.
Ian Crocker
(Portland, Maine/Longhorn)
Aaron Peirsol (Irvine,
Calif./Longhorn)
Michael Phelps (Baltimore, Md./Club Wolverine)
Natalie Coughlin
(Vallejo, Calif./Cal Aquatics)
Katie Hoff (Towson, Md./North
Baltimore)
Kate Ziegler (Great Falls, Va./The Fish)
Ray Benecki (Fairfax,
Va./The Fish)
Bob Bowman (Ann Arbor, Mich./Michigan)
Eddie Reese (Austin, Texas/Texas)
Paul Yetter
(Baltimore, Md./North Baltimore)
Jessica Hardy
(Long Beach, Calif./Irvine Novaquatics)
Chip Peterson (Pine
Knoll Shores, N.C./Carteret Currents)
Kate Ziegler (Great
Falls, Va./The Fish)
Ian Crocker (Portland,
Maine/Longhorn)
Brendan Hansen (Havertown, Pa./Longhorn)
Margaret Hoelzer (Huntsville, Ala./Auburn Aquatics)
200
Back (Aaron Peirsol)
100 Breast (Brendan Hansen)
100 Fly (Ian Crocker)
2005 World Championships)
200 IM (Katie
Hoff)
400 IM (Katie Hoff)
1500 Free (Kate Ziegler)
Relay
Performance of the Year: (all from 2005 World Championships)
Women’s 4 x 200 Free Relay
Men’s 4
x 200 Free Relay
Men’s 4 x 100 Free Relay
As the National Governing Body for competitive
swimming in the United States, USA swimming formulates the rules, implements
policies and procedures, conducts national championships, disseminates safety
and sports medicine information and selects athletes to represent the United
States in international competition. USA Swimming has more than 300,000 members
nationwide and sanctions more than 7,000 events each year. For more
information, visit www.usaswimming.org.
Don’t forget you can still vote: at votegoldengoggles!
Go and vote for your favourite!.
News:
According to SwimStars.org and The WinchesterStar
Aaron Peirsol will be in Winchester on Sunday .
Three-time Olympic gold medalist Aaron Peirsol will be in Winchester on Sunday
to conduct a swim clinic for the Winchester (VA) Swim Team at Jim Barnett Park’s
indoor pool in the War Memorial Building.
Peirsol, a member of the
United States Swim team who captured individual gold medals in both the 100- and
200-meter backstroke and was part of the U.S. gold medal-winning 400 medley
relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, will speak with members of the swim
team at 9 a.m. about his Olympic experience.
Peirsol was recently named USA
Swimming’s 2005 Athlete of the Year, beating out fellow Olympian Michael Phelps.
From 9:30 to noon, Peirsol will conduct a swimming clinic for the team.
Following the clinic, he’ll be available to sign autographs. Peirsol was
originally scheduled to visit Winchester in September, but the Austin, Texas
resident had to cancel due to Hurricane Rita.
Peirsol’s visit is
sponsored by Mutual of Omaha, an official sponsor of USA Swimming. - The
Winchester Star
First the TV news:
I took the info from SwimStars.org
“Duel In The Pool” on wiill be on TV in Australia. Foxtel will broadcast the event on Thursday, November 17 noon on Fox2 Sports. Later that day there will be a live telecast of the Swimming Australia Skins at 7:30PM. Then on November 19-20, fans can tune in to Fox2 Sports
for the Aussie leg of the FINA World Cup. Coverage begins on the 19th at 7:00PM and on the 20th at 8:00PM.
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Merchandise:
Since yesterday Unfiltered, the docu about Michael and Ian, is available. Got to Swim with the Stars.com to order your copy. The DVD will be delivered worldwide.
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... so all parts of the site should be up and running again. I am sorry for the offline time, that was due to a massive server failure at the data center APO is hosted at. I hope everything is okay again and if you find any error page or if something is not working please tell me.
On to real news then: Aaron will not compete in the World Short Course Championships which will take part in Shanghai next April.
To see which athletes will accompany Ryan Lochte, Larsen Jensen and Klete Keller check the following article:
United States Names Squad for World Short Course Champs
Swimming: Olympian Aaron Peirsol makes appearance at Bozeman Swim Center
Part of the Nike grant the club won in the spring was the arrival of Olympic backstroker Aaron Peirsol, who won a clutch of medals in Athens a year ago, and every heart at the Bozeman Swim Center this weekend.
Peirsol was on the kind of whirlwind tour expected from world-class athletes coming to Bozeman. After running about 30 Masters swimmers through four hours of drills Saturday, he left Sunday to return to school at the University of Texas at Austin.
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“Swimming is a grass-roots sport,” Peirsol said. “They really soaked everything up today.”
By MIKE KIEFER, Chronicle Sports Writer
The success of the Bozeman Masters Swimming Club and its fundraiser clinic Saturday afternoon was painted in blush across every female face, age six to 60.
Part of the Nike grant the club won in the spring was the arrival of Olympic backstroker Aaron Peirsol, who won a clutch of medals in Athens a year ago, and every heart at the Bozeman Swim Center this weekend.
Peirsol was on the kind of whirlwind tour expected from world-class athletes coming to Bozeman. After running about 30 Masters swimmers through four hours of drills Saturday, he left Sunday to return to school at the University of Texas at Austin.
But this was not the Hatch Festival Redux.
Attendees expecting larger-than-life figure, a physical freak in the Michael Phelps mold, might have been surprised to find an athletic but not imposing Peirsol in his speedo, who was quick to jump in alongside them and demonstrate his flip turn.
Hands-on, down-to-earth - these were the descriptions of the international star who looked more the part of goofy college dude than golden Olympic God.
“This is the first master’s clinic that I’ve got to do, and I dug it,” Peirsol said after a half-an-hour autograph session that had stretched to the door of the swimming pool. “I’m used to kids clinic and they can pick things up over time, but I think that these guys grasp things that kids can’t grasp. The important thing is that they want to be here. It was an education for me as well.”
Peirsol peppered his demonstrations with anecdotes at the expense of his fellow Olympians and regaled the audience with stories from the life of an athlete that accomplished most his dreams at the age of 21.
He got knowing laughs when he said gained 30 pounds in the six-month break he took after the Olympics. Then he confessed he had Britney Spears music running through his head during the first 100 meters of race.
The questions he fielded from the club members, who ranged in age from mid-20s to late-60s, were all of a technical nature ranging from his diet and sleep habits to the six-beat kick he uses in his record-breaking backstroke.
“We all started somewhere,” Peirsol said. “You got to remember when you were 10 years old and you were a kid, when the people you looked up to coming to talk and what that meant to you. It’s about giving some of that back.”
The event was a watershed moment for the city’s Masters Club, now just two years old, after winning the Nike’s $1,500 prize for programs trying to break new ground in areas unfamiliar to swimming. The money will go toward expanding the club’s restrictive workout times beyond the cramped Bozeman Swim Center.
Also included in the Nike Grant is a photo spread in the USMS Swimming Magazine that will team organizers hope will build interest.
Few things will be a bigger draw than the kind of event they managed Saturday.
“Swimming is a grass-roots sport,” Peirsol said. “They really soaked everything up today.”
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